Infections can cause skin lesions, nerve damage, blindness and hair loss, among other symptoms ... identified the disease in wild chimpanzees in West Africa and in British red squirrels.

In England, evidence of a strain of leprosy has been uncovered in a red squirrel ... The disease can result in skin lesions, nerve damage, hair loss, blindness, and a number of other symptoms.

Here's what we know: Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome is a rare infectious disease that begins with flu-like symptoms and progresses ... rice rat in the Southeast. Squirrels and chipmunks can also ...